There are a bunch of really cool Raspberry Pi based clusters out there such as:
- 5 years of Raspberry Pi Clusters - From the Official Raspberry Pi blog
- Jeff Geerling's Blog - lots of tips on building RPi based clusters
- Turing Pi - RPi cluster in a Mini-ITX sized mount that takes care of network and power.
- Worlds Largest RPi Cluster - Current record belongs to Oracle. See them bulding their cluster here
This is mine. As a few people have asked about it, here is a component list:
- 7 x Raspberry Pi 4 B (4GB) 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- 7 x GeeekPi Raspberry Pi 4 PoE HAT 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- 7 x MicroSD Card 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- 7 x 0.25m or 1ft CAT6 patch cables 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- 4 x The Pi Hut CLuster Case for Raspberry Pi (with Fans) 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE Network Switch (GS108PP) - Hub with 8 x PoE+ @ 123W 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- Pack of spare M3 spacers & standoffs 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- Aluminimum Plate 1mm or 0.050" thick 100mm x 340mmm. I got a bit of aluminium from a local hardware store designed to be used as a protective door plate
All that said - just seen this case and very tempted as it should be substantially quieter also if you leave the fans off the PoE HAT and just go with the big fans on this enclosure. Alternatively this one looks handy too and has room for a router.
Currently looking at adding three panels of 8x8 RGB's to one face in a custom 3d printed mount so that I can show blue-green deployments happening inside the cluster. Components on the way to accomplish this:
- 3 x 64 LED Matrix Panel WS2812B 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- Adafruit Fade Candy 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- 48v to 5v step down convertor 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- DC Jack and Socket 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
- Acrylic Diffuser
I'll update if I get that done or if it turns out not very effective.